Creating Entropy sets

You use your Sabayon Desktop to your taste and you kinda always want to install the same thing when you freshly install Sabayon. Taken this idea there are sets you can create yourself or use the provided ones from entropy.

Here is an example how to make one for e.g. Gnome on a Core install. (or on a KDE install)

all sets are stored in /etc/entropy/packages/sets , so in my example I’ll use what will be our stock Gnome set for Core:

create an empty file:

touch /etc/entropy/packages/sets/gnome

and put in these atoms:

x11-base/xorg-server

x11-apps/xdm

gnome-base/gdm

gnome-base/gnome-light

gnome-base/gnome-applets

mail-client/evolution

media-gfx/eog

app-arch/file-roller

media-video/totem

x11-themes/sabayon-artwork-gnome

app-misc/sabayon-skel

gnome-extra/nm-applet

app-cdr/brasero

app-text/evince

www-plugins/adobe-flash

dev-java/sun-jdk

Save the file and do this:

equo install @gnome

The example set will actually be available in Entropy by default so there will be no need for creating this one, but I can imagine that you install Core and only want to install apache, PHP, MySQL and perhaps some additional packages. For such thing I encourage you to write a set and keep it stored somewhere safe in case you ever do a fresh install again.